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Thats what it is tapine
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dank_xiaopeng posted:

iirc there was plenty of trolling, but funnily enough that thread brought in, i shit you not, $15,000 in donations and directly funded the construction of a rural water system. so not only did old lf buy new pants for a goon in need, it also directly participated in the NGOization of the provision of basic services in the global south



Thats funny but also i guess all the trolling worked in that you now think the peace corps is bad. Which was probably at least some peoples intention not just calling u a moran to feel better about themselves

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what the
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heck
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tpaine posted:

ok i googled it and it's worms. which is still pretty fucked up. just dump these living, breathing creatures in a big pile of shit so they die and their five hearts stop pumping blood and instead it whets my microgreens which i put on my big macs to make them healthy. wow



it makes me feel alive.

the power that i have over them

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walkinginonit posted:

In a eek or so I'm going to be making an elevated garden out of used wine cases. Because that's the sort of thing I do now, I guess


Example



cool where are you getting the wineboxes from?

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dank_xiaopeng posted:

EmanuelaBrolandi posted:

Sorry about how hard we shit on you for that thread buddy

iirc there was plenty of trolling, but funnily enough that thread brought in, i shit you not, $15,000 in donations and directly funded the construction of a rural water system. so not only did old lf buy new pants for a goon in need, it also directly participated in the NGOization of the provision of basic services in the global south

lmao

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xipe posted:

walkinginonit posted:

In a eek or so I'm going to be making an elevated garden out of used wine cases. Because that's the sort of thing I do now, I guess


Example

cool where are you getting the wineboxes from?



From the wine and liquor store I work at

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i fantasize one day about having a vermicompost septic system. I will poop in the toilet and flush it and then bacteria will eat my poop and the fungi will eat the bacteria poop and the worms will eat it all and they will also poop and it will filter my poop into cleaner poop water which will feed constructed wetlands lined with trees which will bear lots of fruit that i will eat so i can poop some more.
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tsinava posted:

soicowboy posted:

im going to start a garden this year but i dont really know what im doing and all these gardeners recommend that i start small and incrementally progress to a full sized garden. but i want full garden now

If you're the lazy type of gardener, like me, and have access to space on ground level, I would suggest looking for herbs, and food bearing plants that are prolific, resilient and local to your area.

So say if you lived where I live (Austin, Texas) I would tell you to find the nicest spot in your yard and plant a fig tree, a pomegranate tree, a thornless blackberry bush, and maybe like 3 or 4 different varieties of rosemary/mint/sage/thyme around it. Then maybe mulch the area with leaves or compost or whatever you have.

By the next year it will be pretty well established and the blackberries will probably start producing about a year after that. In 5 years, something like that could bear a lot of fruit and usable herbs.

That's just an example though. However, pretty much all of those plants that I mentioned (excluding pomegranates) do pretty well in the U.S. in general. It's just a matter of finding the variety for your area.

I would also look into self-sowing crops, like onions, garlic, sweet potatoes, potatoes, Jerusalem artichokes, basically things you only need to plant once. There's also plenty of crops that just stick around for years and keep growing food for your if you keep cutting and leave the root alone, like kale, malabar spinach, or kholrabi, even tomatoes will do this if they have a nice enough climate.

I recently just ordered some moringa oleifera seeds. I'm pretty stoked about growing those. Moringa is supposed to be very hardy and generous. It's foliage and roots are high in protein. It also grows from cuttings with ease.



okay now make suggestions for an herb garden in a dingy, lightless apartment in Seattle that won't kill any cats that eat them (I have twelve cats)

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if all else fails you can probably grow mushrooms if you want to.


the best substrate mix for mushroom growing is basically shredded moss and worm castings. (super water absorbant source of carbon and nutrient dense source of nitrogen)

just mix your spores in with sterilized water and keep it in the fridge in a spore injector while you steam/boil the substrate (moss and worm shit in a sealed mason jar with a small pin sized hole in the lid with tape over it) on the stove for an hour. then inject the spores into the mason jar and reapply the tape and let it sit in a dark warmish place (17-80F) for about a month until the substrate in the jar turns completely white.

when the jar is ready, open it and put it somewhere where it's exposed to dim or periodic light and constant vapor. So like maybe a clear box with a wet sponge in it. Maybe your bathroom.

This process works with ANY kind of mushroom btw.
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if i were to plant i would fill my whole plot with sugar snap peas and let them die for a cycle before i do anything the next year.
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parabolart posted:

if i were to plant i would fill my whole plot with sugar snap peas and let them die for a cycle before i do anything the next year.



Welcome back please finish your forums layout!!!

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camera_obscura posted:

okay now make suggestions for an herb garden in a dingy, lightless apartment in Seattle that won't kill any cats that eat them (I have twelve cats)


i really want to add titles to rhizzone now just so it can say

camera_obscura
has twelve cats

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blinkandwheeze posted:

parabolart posted:
if i were to plant i would fill my whole plot with sugar snap peas and let them die for a cycle before i do anything the next year.


Welcome back please finish your forums layout!!!


yes please. post in the site feedback & news forum if you want to chat about anything to do with this.

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We have titles drwhat your title is mt. Real i think you meant to type MC Real
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oh right the location field. i guess that would be fine, if i/we fix up the layout so it's in the right place for maximum joke potential
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no my location is mt. real. it's in the desert of the real, there's a dungeon of the real here & that's where you get the airship
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*opens google maps on phone and presses location tab, google maps zooms in to Schild und Schwert der Partei, New York*
Oh sorry thats location text my bad
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But on SA the title was under the av so imo its the most lf. Imo just make it long enough to add From:
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EmanuelaBrolandi posted:

But on SA the title was under the av so imo its the most lf. Imo just make it long enough to add From:


we must be bold enough to reinvent what is lf from base principles, not content merely to parrot history

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To me I feel like when titles are under the name its more of a ranking / post count based vibe than under the av, which is like a thing the person chose to present themselves vs the username which cannot be changed
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tsinava posted:

I'm actually ordering a bunch of seeds online.



I did this once, and enthusiastically ordered a bunch of rare vareties of vegetables and legumes. My brussel sprouts in particular did amazingly well! They even started blooming. I proudly declared my superior gardening skills to anyone that would listen but much to my chagrin they turned out to be lilies.



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that sucks. i try to source everything I grow as locally as possible but sometimes there just stuff you can't really find locally, like moringa.
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so there's a local business that's selling really nice finished compost, it's good stuff, and they're only charging $35 for a pickup truck load. thats too good to pass up, and i''m gonna put a good blanket down before i plant

how the hell can you make a profit doing that. i mean yeah you're basically selling aged garbage, but still.
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they probably get paid to do a number of things, like they probably get a lot of their money from fees they might charge businesses for dumping their organic waste on their property, they also probably charge those businesses to pick up their waste as well.
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if you have enough land, an excavator and a dump truck, selling compost is easy peasy
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May all your dreams come true:
http://decolonizeyourdiet.org/resources
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mouthwatering marxfood
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animedad posted:

May all your dreams come true:
http://decolonizeyourdiet.org/resources



fuck forever off

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littlegreenpills posted:

fuck forever off

you should buy your wild rice from that first link tho (if you like wild rice at least), winona laduke and that org are both rad as heck. or some other tribe if you happen to live in a place where that's an option

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littlegreenpills posted:

animedad posted:

May all your dreams come true:
http://decolonizeyourdiet.org/resources

fuck forever off


Y

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any compost tips?
how do you make your compost, on a household or community level?

where do you get the stuff for it and what do you do with it?
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also is there a list out there of things that are easy to grow but expensive in the shops?
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xipe posted:

also is there a list out there of things that are easy to grow but expensive in the shops?

erowid.org